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Date:      18 Jun 2000 13:32:50 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net>
To:        clefevre@citeweb.net
Cc:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <em5vkyvx.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>
In-Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:15:55 %2B0200 (CEST)"
References:  <200006181115.NAA59468@gits.dyndns.org>

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Cyrille Lefevre <root@gits.dyndns.org> writes:

> > Joseph Wright wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:14:51AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > > "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > > Joseph Wright wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since when?  Any that I've ever needed had to be compiled into the
> > > > > kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > Since when is a tough question, but since 4.0, I think, for NICs, and
> > > > certainly at least 3.x, maybe even 2.x, for fs.
> > > 
> > > cvs log ifconfig.c says revision 1.44 which is after RELENG_3_4_0_RELEASE
> > > ...
> > >         RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE: 1.51
> > > ...
> > >         RELENG_3_4_0_RELEASE: 1.38.2.2
> > > ...
> > > revision 1.44
> > > date: 1999/09/20 07:58:08;  author: msmith;  state: Exp;  lines: +45 -1
> > > If we don't appear to have a module loaded supporting the interface
> > > we're about to operate on, try to load one.  Don't complain if the
> > > load fails, and always press on regardless (there may not be a module
> > > suitable or required).
> > > 
> > > With the renaming of the PCI ethernet driver modules and the addition
> > > of appropriate miibus dependancies on those modules that need it, it is
> > > now no longer necessary to compile many ethernet drivers into the kernel;
> > > they will be loaded on demand the first time they are ifconfig'ed.
> > 
> > I built a kernel without 'device miibus' and 'device xl' and it
> > automatically loaded the drivers when I manually did 'ifconfig'.  But 
> > it didn't load them from rc.conf, where I have my ethernet card
> > configured like so:
> > 
> > ifconfig_xl0="inet 216.231.50.6  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > defaultrouter="216.231.50.1"
> > 
> > So I put the drivers back in the kernel.
> 
> another solution would be to load it a boot time using if_xl_load="YES"
> in /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> I don't remember which version of FreeBSD are you running, is it
> 4.0-STABLE ?
> 
> PS : I put back this message in the mailing lists multimedia & hackers.

forgive this message, I fu2 this message to the wrong lists, sorry.

indeed, fu2 stable.

Cyrille.
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